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Stephen Chang Kim Mfa Thesis Statement, Stephen C. Kim
Stephen Chang Kim Mfa Thesis Statement, Stephen C. Kim
CGU MFA Theses
Stephen Chang Kim Thesis
Go Big Or Go Home, Concepcion M. Sanford
Go Big Or Go Home, Concepcion M. Sanford
CGU MFA Theses
My work embodies my response to the American Dream. Big houses, flashy cars and glamorous lifestyles are what many of us work for. Coming from a military family, I grew up moving often without an idealized connection to a single structure. In response to this, I use artwork to create translucent, ephemeral sculptures of these items, revealing them as tangible, hollow shells of their former selves. Clear plastic and packing tape sculptures leave a ghostlike reflection of what was. These shells of inanimate objects are personified through their creation, a process similar to what I compare to mummification or embalming. …
Potential Space, Jocelyn R. Grau
Flotsam & Jetsam, Nicolas S. Shake
Flotsam & Jetsam, Nicolas S. Shake
CGU MFA Theses
My work is pastoral and post-apocalyptic with one foot firmly planted in historical painting and the other in traditional still-life, so it is entropic and sanguine, gleeful, despondent, and matter of fact. It comes at a point in time when the fiction of Nature as a refuge is no longer viable, persuasive or convincing. But rather than rehash this fact, my work celebrates the pastoral’s everyday ordinariness, the capacity for the viewer to experience something wondrous amidst decline. I focus on the cast-off household and utilitarian items that show up in the desert on the outskirts of Los Angeles. The …
Front, Jennifer Mitchell
Front, Jennifer Mitchell
CGU MFA Theses
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Here's Looking When, Erica Ryan Stallones
Here's Looking When, Erica Ryan Stallones
CGU MFA Theses
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Nano Rubio Mfa Thesis, Armando Rubio Jr.
Nano Rubio Mfa Thesis, Armando Rubio Jr.
CGU MFA Theses
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Claudia Carballada Mfa Thesis Statement, Claudia Carballada
Claudia Carballada Mfa Thesis Statement, Claudia Carballada
CGU MFA Theses
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Erin Payne Mfa Thesis Statement, Erin B. Payne
Erin Payne Mfa Thesis Statement, Erin B. Payne
CGU MFA Theses
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The Nature Of Making Sense, Allison Alford
The Nature Of Making Sense, Allison Alford
CGU MFA Theses
My interest is to breed the mystical with the mundane, producing informational systems that coalesce knowledge, ambiguity, logic and fantasy. The species that populate my imagery are totems that could function as heroines, monsters or shapes that elude and inform us. The work functions as a stage upon which, pixels, paint and mystical figures coexist. Each panel acts as a composite of multiple frames of a video: figures combine with paintings, drawings, symbols, and landscape. Though ultimately singular in image, the pictures imply multiplicity. The lineage of the work can be traced to influences such as François Dufrêne, Max Ernst’s …
The Observer Effect, Azadeh Tajpour
The Observer Effect, Azadeh Tajpour
CGU MFA Theses
My work explores the gray area and the shifting border between "us" and "other." It investigates the helplessness and the submissiveness on both sides of this spectrum and one's passivity that makes the "pain of others" inevitable. Moreover, it examines the individual and collective experiences of guilt and complicity in relation to world events. I am interested in the selective and repressed memories of individuals and nations, the reluctance to look and the ability to forget.
Gamespace, Kevin M. Scianni
Gamespace, Kevin M. Scianni
CGU MFA Theses
My work uses gameplay, the experience of interacting with a gaming system, as a strategy to generate paintings. I interact with a set of rules, challenges and goals loosely derived from the structure of early videogames as a method to compose a painting. I am interested in how game strategies can address formal aspects of painting. I am also interested in how gameplay as an indicator of game quality or the desire to continually be challenged will continually advance the paintings.
Élan Vital, Sharon Mealey
Élan Vital, Sharon Mealey
CGU MFA Theses
My art explores the inner qualities of life, focusing on adaptability and resiliency. I am interested in the mysterious vital force philosophers call élan vital that animates human beings. I investigate the transitory nature of life where it intersects with élan vital. My paintings accommodate the ephemeral and the perpetual. Please see Download button in top right corner for the full statement.
The City With Rolling Hills, Andrew Ballstaedt
The City With Rolling Hills, Andrew Ballstaedt
CGU MFA Theses
I use painting as a form of ritual and meditation where I often spend lots of time painting and repeating simple marks over and over again. On occasion, I am able to make quick paintings that are successful but most of the time I am compelled to spend repetitive hours making marks in order to reach my state of personal mediation through the ritual of painting. Please see Download button in top right corner for the full statement.